In reply to Phil Pearson's "OK Ben, your turn! Who are you? :-)", I wrote this:

"Looking at what you just added to your user page moves me to answer BenTrem is a) a Pearson-era bus-hippie who ended up ComRsch 291 and DewLine, eventually raising 5 kids in the hills of Cape Breton Island, and b) ferr shurr not Phillip Pearson. But to be a bit more self-revealing, I'm variously a tech_docs specialist (MIL-SPEC / FMECA spoken here) and ummm a ?what? activist siddha."

Earlier today I replied to something from FFII and asked for KWiki write-access; by way of introduction I included this set of links: